Comparison of two methods for calculating the partition functions of various spatial statistical models

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 47-65

  Huang, Fuchun ^a,c   Ogata, Yosihiko ^b,c  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gibbs sampling; Likelihood; MCMC integration; Metropolis algorithm; Partition function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035579701     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-842X.00154     Document Type: Article

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